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Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - On the Starmaker
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Olaf Stapledon – Star Maker
In truth, the eternal spirit was ineffable. Nothing whatever could be truly said about it. Even to name it spirit was perhaps to say more than was justified. Yet to deny it that name would be no less mistaken, for whatever it was, it was more, not less, than spirit, more not less than any possible human meaning of that word. And from the human level, this 'more', obscurely and agonisingly glimpsed, was a dread mystery, compelling adoration